Sets Bahrain jurisdictional blending and the ETR formula while separating investment entities and other special categories.
What should you do now?Lock the included and excluded entity population before dividing adjusted covered taxes by net income.
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The official source is Arabic. This English commentary is explanatory and is not presented as an official translation.
Sets Bahrain jurisdictional blending and the ETR formula while separating investment entities and other special categories.
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Arabic text of Article 42
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احتساب معدل الضريبة الفعلي
أ- فيما لم يرد بشأنه نص خاص في القانون أو هذه اللائحة، ولأغراض احتساب معدل الضريبة الفعلي وفقًا للفقرة (أ) من المادة (8) من القانون، يُقصد بالضرائب المشمولة المعدلة للكيانات المشاركة التي تقع في المملكة، مجموع الضرائب المشمولة المعدلة لجميع الكيانات المشاركة للسنة المالية، كما هو محدد وفقًا للمادة (7) من القانون.
ب- فيما لم يرد بشأنه نص خاص في القانون أو هذه اللائحة، ولأغراض احتساب معدل الضريبة الفعلي في الفقرة (ج) من المادة (8) من القانون، تُستبعد الضرائب المشمولة المعدلة ودخل أو خسارة الكيانات المشاركة التي تكون كيانات استثمار في مجال التأمين من احتساب معدل الضريبة الفعلي.
ج- لأغراض تطبيق أحكام الفقرة (أ) من المادة (8) من القانون يُعبر عن نتيجة معدل الضريبة الفعلي بنسبة مئوية مقربة إلى أربعة أرقام عشرية، ويُحتسب معدل الضريبة الفعلي لكل سنة مالية.
Source: Executive Regulations issued by Decision No. 172 of 2024, Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission (lloc.gov.bh).
What does the Article mean in plain language?
Compute the annual effective rate using statutory Adjusted Covered Taxes and income for entities included in the Bahrain aggregation. Respect separate-computation rules, Paragraph B's Insurance Investment Entity exclusion and Article 43 exclusions. Express the percentage rounded to four decimal places. Do not average individual company rates or divide by a zero or loss denominator as though it produced an ordinary effective rate.
Tax, accounting and financial-modelling teams responsible for the final computation.
Lock the included and excluded entity population before dividing adjusted covered taxes by net income.
Averaging company rates instead of dividing aggregated eligible taxes by eligible income.
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